Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters An old book on exploring the Nile River, and fishing and hunting while doing so.

I had this bookmarked and was reading it on line. Alas, there are only two kinds of people with computers, those who have lost important information, and those who are going to.

It was really interesting and had a lot of information about the river and the people encountered while travelling upriver towards the source. It was many, many, years ago, and they hunted and fished along the way.

Pretty sure I found the link to it here on The Fire. Anyone here know the title or where to find it? I have completely forgotten it. Getting old is interesting, to say the least.

Thanks,
Ted

Maybe "Explorers of the Nile" by Tim Jeal or "The White Nile" by A. McC. Moorehead".

One of these?

Bird Hunting on the White Nile...

https://archive.org/details/birdhuntingonwhi00with/page/n8/mode/2up

Sport in the Eastern Sudan...Blue Nile...

https://archive.org/details/sportineasternsu00cottiala/page/n6/mode/2up

Service and Sport on the tropical Nile...

https://archive.org/details/serviceandsport01sykegoog/page/n20/mode/2up

Found it! The Albert N'Yanza Great Basin Of The Nile; And Exploration Of The Nile Sources. (1866)

Those others look like great reads, too.

Thanks,
Ted

The River of Doubt is a very good read along the same line, but it is a tributary of the Amazon... Teddy R, after losing the election in 1912 (Bull Moose Party) took off on the trip down an unknown river with no good idea where it would come out. During the course of the expedition he caught some nasty bug which ultimately killed him not long after his return.

Here is a link to the book...

https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest/dp/0767913736


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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.

Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.

From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.

Thanks, Sitka, I put it on my list.